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by lllr_finger 9y ago
To your implied question about Linux on a Chromebook - you can skip all that Crouton stuff if you flash a special bios. I've got Ubuntu Server with Xmonad on mine as a daily driver and it's been a smooth experience.
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by lllr_finger 9y ago
I think OP's idea was that developers in most fields are very infrequently treading new ground when it comes to solving programming problems. Your business idea is where you'll likely be innovating - trying to use X language/
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by lllr_finger 9y ago
As someone dealing with an extruding disc right now I hope they heal. In all seriousness, my research and speaking with specialists is that bulging or extruding disc do have blood flow and they will eventually reabsorb. Even sequestered d
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
This is a great point, and a sword I fell on at my previous employer. React is great for stateful web apps - a blog or a news site have some state, but aren't really that state heavy. Especially when you have a news site getting millio
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
I wouldn't argue that it's the second coming of Jesus, but it's been pleasant to work in. React creates HTML from JavaScript, and JSX is a convenient, intuitive, and familiar way to express your code. I've found that R
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
Yes. My understanding from conversations with those in the know, and our limited testing at AMP launch, is that you treat the CDN as a proxy. All the downsides of losing visibility to your domain and none of the upside from offloading traff
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
Current models ingest new data from a variety of sources, including surface observations, buoys, airplanes, and GOES-derived data. The derived data might be more accurate and might be used more extensively going forward - I'm not entir
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
Completely agree. The value of being able to compare individual parameters across models over time, especially with an NWS forecast overlaid is tremendous. If anyone is interested, IEM has a site that is rather easy to use once you find you
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
This is a great visualization of free data, although not the first in this style, but it's usefulness in actual forecasting or nowcasting is rather limited. Interpolation between sparse grid points can result in missing fine details, l
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
The AMP CDN doesn't even really help with caching - when I implemented AMP at launch for some large sites, it was strongly implied that we couldn't expect any reduction in calls to our servers, and we didn't notice any reduct
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
Even with blue-green deployments and a separate AMP solution, it's unlikely that they did a during-business-hours release just to prevent paywall workarounds for a tiny subset of their pageviews.
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
Most of it is rather safe. Fixer is the bad part of the process IIRC.
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
I've been fine with 400 and have noticed issues with 1600, so 800 certainly seems like a good place to draw the line from my experience.
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
This is completely incorrect - the 810 is tested at somewhere shy of 15 stops DR. Portra 400 can squeak out 18. A slow B+W film can do 20-21. I spent years struggling with high dynamic range/contrast acutance with severe weather photog
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
Current APS sensor technology is around 15 stops of dynamic range and 50MP. 4x5 sheets of Portra can resolve 100-300MP with 18 stops of dynamic range. Digital has beaten 135 film, but it still hasn't beaten 120 / medium format in
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
Correction: 35mm is grainier, not noisier. After staring at grain vs color noise in shadows for hours at a time, the aesthetics of grain are one of the reasons I still shoot film sometimes.
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
This isn't in line what what others photographers (including myself) see. Many respectable sources estimate 35mm to approach 24MP in the best conditions with specific film, 120 to be in the 40-80MP range, and 4x5 to be 100-300MP. Tim P
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
It's not that, because classic film lenses are used on digital mirror less cameras rather routinely. Film has a pleasing, gradual acutance compared to digital - especially in high contrast areas. Edit: but you are correct that chromati
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
I'm curious what experience led to this opinion because I can't disagree more. Most any .NET site doing volume should be using TPL, because the framework is incredibly efficient at managing threads and preventing the pipeline from
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
I've been running Arch on a Dell Chromebook and battery life and sleep/wake are essentially the same as with ChromeOS from what I've seen so far. Awesome experience.
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
Pinpoint accuracy in the spatial sense isn't what's useful here for weather forecasting - it's the increased resolution for detecting subtle features and the increased frequency for detecting said features more quickly. This
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
Capital Weather Gang usually does a better job explaining things to the masses, so that's a little disappointing. Having a similar conversation with family and friends, it's challenging to explain the hype. Weather is incredibly c
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
Working at a media conglomerate I probably have a different take than some - I love AMP, compared to the alternatives. For personal sites I don't see it as a big deal, but for news sites it's amazing. The devs working on news site
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by lllr_finger 10y ago
As a developer working on a site with thousands of concurrent connections that recently went to production with RC1 and is implementing back-end applications as well, I've been looking forward to RC2. All this talk that .NET Core will